Sir George Martin to be honoured at Music Producers Guild Awards

Famed BEATLES producer SIR GEORGE MARTIN is to be recognised for his contributions to U.K. music at the forthcoming Music Producers Guild Awards.

PUBLISHED: 09:42, Wed, Dec 12, 2012

The recording studio pioneer, credited with shaping the Fab Four's sound, will take home the Outstanding Contribution to U.K. Music trophy at a prizegiving in London on 7 February (13).

Nominees for the evening's top honour - the U.K. Producer of the Year title - are rocker Damon Albarn; Paul Epworth, producer of Adele's hit album 21; and Jake Gosling, who has worked with One Direction and Ed Sheeran.

Danger Mouse, Jack White and Max Martin are up for International Producer of the Year, while the Remixer of the Year category is a race between The xx's Jamie Smith, UNKLE and Matthew Herbert.

The 2012 Mercury Prize winners Alt-J will do battle against Sheeran, Florence + the Machine and Paloma Faith for the U.K. Album of the Year title.

Comments Unavailable

Sorry, we are unable to accept comments about this article
at the moment. However, you will find some great articles
which you can comment on right now in our
Comment section.